| Year | Event | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1889 | Tower which became the tallest human-built structure in history | Eiffel Tower | 97%
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| 1793 | Queen beheaded by guillotine | Marie Antoinette | 93%
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| 1789 | Prison stormed by a mob | Bastille | 91%
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| 1959 | President who founded the Fifth Republic | Charles de Gaulle | 88%
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| 1799 | General proclaimed as "First Consul" of the Republic | Napoleon Bonaparte | 87%
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| 1940 | Town from which British forces evacuated in advance of German troops | Dunkirk | 86%
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| 1307 | Military order who were arrested en masse on Friday the 13th | Knights {Templar} | 71%
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| 1783 | Flying device demonstrated by the Montgolfier brothers | Hot air balloon | 70%
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| 1871 | Country which besieged and captured Paris | Prussia | 70%
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| 1306 | Group of people banished from France and whose property was confiscated | Jews | 69%
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| 845 | Group who sailed up the Seine and sacked Paris | Vikings | 65%
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| 1095 | Conflict launched by Pope Urban at the Council of Clermont | First Crusade | 60%
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| 52 BC | Conqueror to whom Vercingetorix surrendered | Julius Caesar | 60%
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| 1429 | City liberated from an English siege by Joan of Arc | Orleans | 56%
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| 1598 | Group of people given rights by the Edict of Nantes | Huguenots (Protestants) | 54%
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| 732 | King who halted the Muslim advance at the Battle of Tours | Charles Martel | 48%
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| 1858 | Town where a peasant girl named Bernadette had visions of the Virgin Mary | Lourdes | 36%
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| 508 | Frankish king who was baptized | Clovis | 33%
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| 1913 | Composer whose ballet "The Rite of Spring" supposedly shocked concert goers | Igor Stravinsky | 20%
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